سَحَمٌ

A sort of tree;(Ṣ, Ḳ;) like سَحْمَآءُ↓: (Ṣ:) the latter also signifies a sort of tree: (Ḳ:) the former is said by ISk to be a certain plant: and by AḤn, to be a plant that grows like theنَصِىّandصِلِّيَانandعَنْكَث, except that it is taller; theسَحَمَة[i. e. the single plant of this species]being sometimes as tall as a man, and larger.(TA.)

word: سَحَمٌ ＝ (dissociation - C1)

Also Iron:(IAạr, Ḳ:) n. un. with ة; meaning a lump, or piece, of iron.(IAạr, TA.)

سُحُمٌ

سُحُمٌ[a pl. of which the sing. is not mentioned,] The blacksmith's hammers.(IAạr, Ḳ.)

سُحْمَةٌ

سُحْمَةٌBlackness;(Ṣ, Mṣb, Ḳ;) as alsoسَحَمٌ↓, [mentioned above as inf. n. of سَحِمَ,] andسُحَامٌ↓; (Ḳ;) like [سُخْمَةٌ and]سَخَمٌ: (TA in art. سخم:)a blackness like the colour of the crow to which the epithetأَسْحَمُ↓is applied.(Lth, TA.)

سُحَامٌ

سُحَيْمٌ

أَسْحَمُ

أَسْحَمُBlack;(Ṣ, Mṣb, Ḳ;) like أَسْخَمُ; (TA in art. سخم;) applied to the crow; see سُحْمَةٌ: (Lth, TA:) fem. سَحْمَآءُ; (Mṣb, TA;) applied to a plant of that colour; (ISk, TA;) and particularly to the نَصِىّ when it is of that colour, and thus applied as an intensive epithet; and to a woman in the same sense: (TA:) andإِسْحِمَانٌ↓ signifies anything black(ISd, Ḳ) accord. to some; but this is a mistake, for it is only أَسْحَمُ. (ISd, TA.)

word: أَسْحَمُ ― (signification - A2)

[Hence,]الأَسْحَمُ is the name of A certain idol,(Ḳ, TA,)which was black.(TA.)

Also Blood into which are dipped the hands of persons swearing, one to another;(Ḳ;) or blood into which the hand is dipped on the occasion of swearing with another or others: said to have this meaning in the saying of El-Aạshà,

* رَضِيعَىْ لِبَانِ ثَدْىِ أُمٍّ تَحَالَفَا *

* بِأَسْحَمَ دَاجٍ عَوْضُ لَا تَتَفَرَّقُ *

[Two foster-brothers by the sucking of the breast of one mother swore together, by dark blood into which they dipped their hands, that you, or they, i. e. a tribe (قَبِيلَة) or a company of men (جَمَاعَة), for, without the context, the meaning is doubtful, should not ever become separated]: or it has here one, or another, of three meanings here following. (Ṣ.)

word: أَسْحَمُ ― (signification - A6)

The womb.(Ṣ.)

word: أَسْحَمُ ― (signification - A7)

The nipple of a woman's breast:(Ḳ:) or the blackness of the nipple of a woman's breast.(Ṣ.)

word: أَسْحَمُ ― (signification - A8)

A skin such as is termedزِقّfor wine:(Ṣ, Ḳ:) because of its blackness: andسُحَيْمٌ↓ also signifies aزِقّ(TA.)

word: أَسْحَمُ ― (signification - A9)

Also A horn:(Ṣ, Ḳ:) thus in the saying of Zuheyr,

* وَتَذَبِيبُهَا عَنْهُ بِأَسْحَمَ مِذْوَدِ *

[And the frequent repelling of her, or them, from him with a horn; so that مذود is merely an explicative adjunct, for it also means a horn, or it may be rendered here an instrument for repel-ling]: (Ṣ,* TA:) or [اسحم is here an epithet, and] the meaning is, with a black horn.(TA.) Another poet uses the phrase تَذُبُّ بِسَحْمَاوَيْنِ. [so in the TA, app. a mistranscription for تَذُبُّ,] i. e., [reading تَذُبُّ, She repels]with a pair of horns; using the fem, as meaning بِصِيصيَتَيْنِ; as though he said بِصِيصِيتَيْنِ سَحْمَاوَيْنِ[with two black horns]. (IAạr, TA.)

word: أَسْحَمُ ― (signification - A10)

The fem., السَّحْمَآءُ also signifies Theدُبُر[here meaning anus]: (Ḳ:) because of its colour. (TA.)